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Caloroga Shark Media. Man Missy one again. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News from CBS News. The headline comedian Kat Williams often brags about passing Marine boot camp. The Marines said they have no record of it.
Get out your popcorn. I’m excited about this one. Kat Williams has been known to throw some rocks and looks like CBS is throwing rocks back. Oh how fun, CBS News writes. Cat Williams for years has claimed to have joined the US Marine Corps as a teenager and successfully navigated the rigorous training, only to be drummed out of the military when his superiors discovered he was a miner.
The Marines told CBS News they have no record of him. Wow from CBS dating back to at least twenty sixteen, Cat has claimed association with the Marines when talking about his personal biography and video blogs, at his stand up routines, and his interviews viewed and heard by tens of millions of people, CBS is loading up the truck. His claims of military service seemed not to be attached to any of his critically acclaimed jokes or characters he’s created for stage and screen, but instead a part of his journey towards comedy. Multiple emails and phone calls were sent to williams publicist and his reps at CIA. No reply was returned for almost two weeks.
Let me take some more popcorn. This is fun CBS. Continuing earlier this year, Kat Williams sat down for the Club Shashay interview. You guys know about that one. Right on that, Cat Williams, among other things, said, I try to join the Marine Corps and they won’t accept me because I’m too young.
And I’ve lied and I’ve told them I’m sixteen, and my family’s moving down. I don’t have my idea, but it’s coming, and so they let me go to the boot camp. On Mark Marin’s podcast, Cat Williams said, and then I attempted to join the Marine Corps and I go off to boot camp and I passed, and then they reveal that I’m too young, and they gave me a little ceremony because I did pass. You know, Ohrah, I wasn’t even sixteen. I had miscalculated it wrong.
I thought, you know, by the time I got back could be good. But I hadn’t turned sixteen by the time boot camp was over. Maron asked Cat if he got through boot camp and about a ceremony. Williams reaffirmed they passed boot camp, saying when you come back, everybody gets the ceremony. And I was supposed to have been probably putting the brig or court martialed or something, but they didn’t treat me like that.
As far as the Marine Corps thing, whatever those commercials was selling. You remember those commercials back in that time. If you wanted to join a gang, the Marines was the gang to join. CBS News says they have filed a Freedom of Information Actor quest for records pertaining to Cat williams alleged enlistment in the Marine Corps. Oh there’s more.
Marine Corps officials told CBS that if Kat’s story was accurate, there would be records showing his entry into the military service, his graduation, and discharge, even if he had frauduley enlisted as a miner. CBS News spoke to Anthony Anderson, who runs The Guardians of Valor, a social media website. Anderson told CBS that Kat’s claims are a slap in the face of people have earned the titled Marine boot camp for the Marine Corps is not an easy test. Call yourself from Marine. You have to go through at least thirteen weeks of boot camp and successfully navigate the crucible.
CBS writes. While it’s unclear when exactly Kat Williams began to claim he graduated from marine boot camp, the earliest example CBS News could find stemmed from Kat’s twenty sixteen feud with Kevin Hart. In a video that appears to have been recorded by Kat, addressing drug abuse allegations, Cat Williams says, ever since I got out of the Marine Corps, I can only breathe out of one nostril. Apparently, later that year, Kat spoke about this on stage. CBS says that routine was removed from YouTube due to copyright infringement.
However, the video still exists in the reader forum on military dot Com. A user posted the video on the website back in twenty sixteen and asked Kat Williams a marine question mark that’s fun.
Meanwhile, I thought I was gonna lead off with this.
Have you seen this picture of jay Leno with an eye patch? According to jay Lenol, I was at a hotel that was on a hill and I go to the guy, what’s a good place to eat? And he said, oh, at the bottom of the hill. The restaurant was there, but to get to it, I en’d have a car, so he had to go walk about a half a mile around. Jay said, the hill didn’t look that steep, about sixty seventy feet, and I thought, let me see if I can go down there.
Boom, Yeah, I rolled down the hill, hit my head on a rock, knock me in the eye. There you go. He lifted his eyepatch to show a black eye that could barely open. Instead of seeking medical attention, Leno did the show. It was only a couple hours before the show.
There were twenty six hundred people. It’s not that big a deal, and says he’s holding up fine. You may recall that one of Jay Leno’s vintage cars exploded in twenty twenty two, leaving him with third degree burns. Then you may recall in twenty twenty three he hit a wire while riding a motorcycle, leaving him with a broken collarbone. You know, this is the kind of thing I was joking on threads.
This is a joke, lawyers, but you know it won’t surprise me. If we find out that Conan O’Brien’s been holding jay Leno hostage in his basement. You like that kind of movie, And like every now and then Jaylen escapes and tries to tell us what’s happening, it’s a joke. CBS has announced a date for Nate Brighetzi’s Christmas Special, which I am actually surprised they’re not calling a holiday special. They’re using the sea word.
No, not that sea word. That wouldn’t be with Nate’s brand at all. But Nate Brigatsi’s Nashville Christmas will feature a mix of stand up comedy, pre tape, comedy shorts, sketches, and musical performances. CBS says the special spotlight the heart and spirit of Nashville during the holiday season and highlighting family, fun and feel good moments. Nate, in a statement, set, I’m extremely excited to be creating this special as I’ve long been a fan of variety.
We don’t see enough of it. I want to make a great show for families to gather around and watch together. And I couldn’t be in better hands and with this team. That team includes Lorne Michaels. If you want to see it in advance.
Get to the Grand Ole Opry Tonight’s because that’s when they’re taping it. Okay, you want to hear a solid joke. This is from the trailer for Anthony Jesselnick’s special, which is out Tuesday on Netflix. I’m gonna let this run. He tells a joke.
I want you to pay attention to how long this laugh goes, and notice it’s a laugh and not clappter. This is really long. You’re gonna be tempted to hit skip. Stay with it because Anthony deserves it. It’s a great joke.
But boy, listen to this laughter. My friends just asked me if that would be the sperm donor for her baby, except I don’t know. That’s a pretty big decision. How old is your baby? A ten second joke followed by twenty eight seconds of laughs, bones and all on Netflix Tuesday.
We also got a trailerer for Fortune Fimester, her special also on Netflix, Crushing It, out on December third, her third for Netflix. In Crushing It, Fortunes share stories from her life, including her romantic honeymoon with her wife and her reflections on no longer being my i’s surrogod husband I think this trailer is fantastic. Let’s listen. So something happened when I met Jackson I did not expect. My mom got a little jealous.
Yeah. I remember if I would buy Jack something like a scarf, my mom would be like, I like scarfs. I’m like, you’re not my girlfriend. Their birthdays are five days apart, which is my nightmare. I get heart.
Palpitations in February. I remember early on in my relationship, it was very popular to go on Facebook and profess your love for whoever you were with. So Jack’s birthday, I go on Facebook. I’m like Anamy so much. Here are the grand insan Nanzana?
How many me? I posed? Like thirty pictures in a clage that took five hours to put together. Five days later, I call my mom, Hey Mom, happy birthday, Thank you? Are you okay?
I’m fine? What are you doing? I’m on Facebook. I was looking at my messages and I don’t see one from you. And I know your thumbs work because you use them.
Five days ago, I sent you an edible arrangement? What is this? But she was pissed, so I had to unfriend her. Matt Rife announced a tour. I’m curious to see how fast this sells out.
That’s not a loaded comment, that’s not a dig. Just last time he blew the doors off, and I want to see if it has gotten even quicker or if it’s gotten slower. I’m really curious, And again not a dig. I’m just actually curious. Matt says he’s excited to see y’all for even bigger and better shows for the twenty twenty five Stay Golden Tour.
Rife says, the greatest fans on earth have made my biggest dreams come true. Matt Rife will also have a book out in this December. His memoir will tell us what lets him becoming comedy’s biggest lightning rod before he reached thirty, with stories of bold and historical takes on everything from rap battles with X cons to matt struggles with depression and as many brushes with failure before finally hitting it big. A little behind the scenes here, it took me forever to put together the show today. There are days where I go in and you know, I start with a basic I google the word comedy and google the word comedian.
I see what’s going on. Got some sights that I always check out. Some days there’s nothing, and then today there was so much. And as I explained to my business partner Mark, when I prepped this one, and I also prepped our one about the Royal family, which is Pallace Intrigue, there’s no such thing as prepping one show, because I’m slicing and dicing. As I see items, I’m like, Okay, this has to go year because the special’s out that day, so that’s where you put the news story.
Or this is obviously big, shiny news that goes into tomorrow’s show. Then conversely, I’ll see something like, oh, that could wait. Maybe I’ll drop that into Thanksgiving, because let’s be real, if you were people live sit on Thanksgiving, Or oh, I can sleep this story because I’m taking a long weekend at some point, so I’ll want to pretape the weekend. I could do that in advance if I sleep that. And you know, I’m pretty open with you guys that I always pretape the weekends, So I don’t really prep one show.
I’m always prepping multiple at once. I’ve got this document I use. It’s a kind of a calendar meets word, and I just dropped stories in anyway. It took a long time to do it today, just so much going on. I wound up watching Adam Ray’s special on Netflix.
Now. I wanted to play Flight Simulator twenty twenty four, but so many people were on the server I couldn’t get in. So I played an hour of NHL twenty five. Aren’t you in your mid fifties, John? Yes?
John loves video games. So after an hour of hockey, then I was like, all right, what’s on Netflix? And oh, yeah, the Adam Ray things I hate play on that. I loved it. I was blown away by how much I loved it, and I started texting friends about it, and I told my wife’s to come down, and I was laughing out loud.
As I’ve discussed in the past, I have Emperor of Rome syndrome, where usually I do what the comedians do and I just analyze comedy and I don’t actually laugh, and I stoneface and I go, oh, that was well written. Oh that’s really funny. This one. I was laughing. I will talk about it tomorrow.
There’s an article in the La Times discussing the behind the scenes of it. I don’t want to say anything about it other than it was funny and you should watch it and I’ll tell you more about that tomorrow. I don’t want to spoil it at all.
And then my son text and made me.
He’s like, ap Bio is a good Remember ap Bio Glenn Howardton’s show, And I was like, yeah, I think it’s pretty good. I mean, it’s way better than Mythic Quest. If you watched Rob Mcaleney’s Mythic Quest, it’s unwatchable. Like I just I can’t even make it through episodes. My son is the same way.
We are both fans if it’s always sunny. So I was like, yeah, I remember it being watchable, and I stopped watching it. I don’t remember, so I went back in last night. I watched two episodes. He’s away at college.
He also watched two episodes and we had the same note. It’s as if Dennis from Sonny. It’s aut a class. So I’m kind of in on ap Bio. You’ll find that on Netflix.
There’s nothing new there. I’m just telling you what I’m up to. Mitel Lane got a nice profile in Newsweek and he said, I’ve been doing stand up since i was twenty three. I’m thirty eight now. For a long time before the pandemic, a lot of comedians are sort of at the will of the booking person.
People told us what our careers were. People told us that we’re only a finite amount of people available for these slots, so to speak. For years, I tried so hard to audition and do all the stuff, traditional stuff, and it never panned out. And after the pandemic, comics started putting the stuff up online, and I thought, you know what, I’ll put my stuff up online. That’s a great way to have a TV show.
I’ll have a full blown channel of cooking, my podcast with Nick Smith and stand up and I’m in full control. I can do whatever i want, say whatever I want, edit it however I want. I feel you, Matale, That’s what this podcast is about. I’m glad people like it, and I love that I have full control over it. If some people don’t like it, that’s fine.
Mitale says, it doesn’t have to go through six different producers. Amen, Hi five brother, it doesn’t have to go through creative meetings. Double high five brother. It’s all within my voice and I’ve had a real fun time doing it. I wanted everything to have this base of comedy.
I started in twenty twenty one and it had three thousand followers. Now we have one point eight million. It’s been a lot of fun and a journey I didn’t expect. Good job. Mattel Lane zarn A gorg Is is putting out a book.
It’ll be out April twenty twenty five. Looks like next year is going to be the year of the comedy book. It’s called This American Woman. Gark tells people, did you know in many countries being called an American woman as a slur? Including in India where I grew up.
I got called American all the time from my big fat loud mouth, A huge liability for a brown girl, and I escaped an arranged marriage by fleeing to the utopia of Akron, Ohio. American Woman is a moniker I now wear proudly. That is your comedy news for today. Hey, if you like the show shared on social media, tell a friend about it, follow me on threads. I have the proper handle there at Daily Comedy News.
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